Doppler radar is one of the most revolutionary and lifesaving tools of modern meteorology, which has experts worried about ...

In spring 2011, Joplin, Missouri, was devastated by an EF5 tornado with estimated ... and predict recovery times after a tornado. Once post-event images are available, the model can produce ...

And on May 22, 2011, the EF5 (the ... this case the tornado grows. In the span of a minute it swells grotesquely, from less than a mile in diameter to two and a half times that size—larger ...

A deadly severe weather outbreak spawned at least one tornado in 22 states from May 15-21. Among the hardest-hit states were ...

The Enhanced Fujita scale rates tornadoes from EF0 to EF5 based on damage, with EFU used when damage assessment is impossible. National Weather Service officials received reports and photos that ...

(KWCH) - 10:05 p.m. - A tornado emergency was issued Sunday night as a tornado approached the town of Greensburg in Kiowa County. The last time that terminology was used was when an EF5 tornado ...

However, in 2007, the NWS switched to an Enhanced Fujita scale, and so that tornado, nowadays, would’ve been ranked as an EF5 tornado ... did significant damage. Photos of the street at the ...

The last deadly tornado was further back on Feb. 10, 1959, when a modern-scale EF5 tornado killed 11 people in St. Louis city and 10 in St. Louis County, along with causing more than 300 injuries.

Here is some of the damage from the F5 Charles City tornado. Since then, there have only been two other F5/EF5 tornadoes in Iowa. One F5 occurred in Jordan, IA on June 13, 1976. The other was the ...